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Birth
1877 (Muro Lucano, Italy)
Death
1946 (Astoria, New York)
Lived/Active
New York
Self portrait - Artist self-portrait
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Often Known For
mod figure, landscape, still life
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Categories of Interest
New York Armory Show of 1913
Modernism
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Born in Muro Lucano, near Naples, Italy, Joseph Stella is best known for his painting Brooklyn Bridge, 1919 a futurist work that is an icon of the Industrial Age.
He
arrived in the United States in 1896 and studied medicine and
pharmacology and then attended the Art Students League under William
Merritt Chase. From 1900 -1909, he was an illustrator, especially
interested in immigrant life in New York. One of his assignments
was in Pittsburgh to do a series of indu (showing 500 of 2331 characters). |
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